Twenty five people became ill following an outbreak of Salmonella at a Merseyside take-away, it has emerged.

The Woks Cooking eatery in Richard Hesketh Drive, Westvale in Kirkby was shut down last month.

At that time there had been 14 laboratory confirmed cases of food poisoning in customers who had eaten food from the take-away.

Among those affected was Paula Pierce’s 24-year-old daughter Chantelle, who ended up on morphine after contracting Salmonella.

Paula, who manages the nearby Railway pub, said her daughter was still being sick.

She said: “She’s had a letter from the doctor asking her to come for more blood tests to check her kidneys haven’t been affected, she’s a diabetic.

Chantelle, a barmaid, had a steak and kidney pie and hot and sour soup from Woks Cooking on Monday, July 14.

The next day she went to the doctor and on the Wednesday of that week Chantelle’s temperature had reached 40 degrees and she was taken to hospital by ambulance, where she stayed for a week.